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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks!
Date: 27 Jun 1996 00:05:19 -0500
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Armughan Javaid (b98008@ravi.lums.edu.pk) wrote:

: However I've noticed that is seems to be a bit slower than AIX ?! Can 
: someone comment on this ? is this really so (i.e. have some benchmarks 
: been performed) or am I imagining things ?

I'm not surprised that it's slower than AIX - the hardware's
different.  A RISC chip as far as I know is far faster than a Pentium.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....